Photographer

GETTYSBURG - Across four decades, the renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz has trained her lens on people - rock stars, movie stars, and presidents. The world's headline-makers. In 2009, suddenly thrust into the headlines herself after filing for bankruptcy and still recovering from the loss several years earlier of her longtime companion Susan Sontag and her father, she shifted focus inward. Leibovitz, 63, jotted down a list of people who changed the world through their writings, their art, their discoveries, and their leadership, and ventured out to explore their private places.

Jaleel King is quite the inspiration. Folks who know him still marvel at the way the Art Institute of Philadelphia graduate invented himself as a respected, in-demand, and completely self-sufficient commercial photographer. Let's face it, achieving success isn't easy, even for the hale and hearty. So you can imagine how difficult it's been for someone who suffered the kind of life-changing injury King did. In 1984, when King was 8 and living in the Tasker Homes in South Philly, pellets from a sawed-off shotgun ripped through his kidney, lung, and liver and left him paralyzed from the waist down.

IN "Roy Lichtenstein in his Studio," the Gershman Y offers Philadelphia a glimpse into the private life of one of the 20th century's most iconic artists, all through photographer Laurie Lambrecht's lens. The exhibit's photographs featured were captured while Lambrecht worked closely with Lichtenstein, from 1990 to 1992. Lambrecht had the rare experience of assisting Lichtenstein in New York and South Hampton before his 1993 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. The photographs on display show Lichtenstein's studio, magazine scraps and cutouts scattered against black and white outlines, and the artist himself standing in front of blank and incomplete paintings.

Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art-school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century working closely with him, capturing his modernist architecture on film, died Thursday at his home in Florence, Ariz. He was 95. Until his death in 1959, Mr. Wright placed his trust in Mr. Guerrero as his exclusive photographer. In turn, Mr. Guerrero fell in love with the architect's work and traveled frequently to photograph his buildings.

Jack E. Boucher, a National Park Service photographer who documented America's architectural heritage, including presidential homesteads, old carousels, and a former leper settlement in Hawaii, died Sept. 2 of cardiopulmonary arrest in Silver Spring, Md. He was 80. Mr. Boucher took more than 55,000 photographs of an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 buildings during his 47-year career at the Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey. The range of his subjects was vast: the Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, Wis., designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; the historic Bradbury Building in Los Angeles; the oval stairway of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York; mansions in Newport, R.I.; old mills and armories of New England; and a notable Wheeling Suspension Bridge in West Virginia.

Police in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, are asking for the public's help in identifying several men who tried to take pictures or video images up the skirts of women who were shopping this summer. "The fact that we have three incidents in two months is disturbing," Detective Scott Pezick said. "And these are just the ones we know about. We are asking women to be aware of their surroundings. " On July 2, a woman was trying on clothes at the Habitat store at Exton Square Mall when she noticed a cellphone extending from beneath the fitting-room door.

NOTHING in Wissahickon Valley Park is high-tech. It's there to provide an escape into nature, after all. But for photographer Bruce Wagner, transforming nature with technology isn't always a bad thing. This Sunday, Wagner will present a slide-show of his work that juxtaposes unaltered photos of the park's flowers with abstract images he created from those shots through digital manipulation. Wagner experiments with new ways to create expressive images in the hopes of capturing both the natural world and the feelings it can evoke.

AMSTERDAM - Two Western photojournalists in Syria were held captive for a week by Islamic militants before being rescued by Syrian rebels, one of the men said Friday. Jeroen Oerlemans, a prominent Dutch photographer, told Business News Radio of the Netherlands that he is not sure which group held him and John Cantlie of Britain, but said he is sure they were not Syrian. "They all claimed they came from countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh and Chechnya, and they said there was some vague 'emir' at the head of the group," he said in a seven-minute interview from Turkey, where the men were resting after their ordeal.